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Positive Parenting: Babies and Toddlers Group-Based Parental Interventions
Cid, Alejandro; Balsa, Ana I.; Antonaccio, Valentina - 2017
Early childhood development is increasingly recognized as a key public issue. Parenting interventions form an important evidence-based strategy to foster infant-toddler cognitive and language skills, motor and socio-emotional development and adaptive behavior. This systematic review investigated...
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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society
Namasaka, Martin - 2015
The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015245743
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Gender Bias in Educational Attainment in India : The Role of Dowry Payments
Jacob, Arun - 2016
hypergamous marriage custom, by which a bride is normally matched with a groom of higher educational level, which leads to the …
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Impacts of capital intensity on family formation and gender equality in Vietnam
Vu, Tien Manh; Yamada, Hiroyuki - 2024
gender inequality, using panel data of communes. We use the recorded trajectories of cyclones to create a damage index as an …
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The Multi-dimensions of Aporophobia
Comim, Flavio; Borsi, Mihály Tamás; Valerio Mendoza, … - 2020
This paper offers the first analytical framework to tackle the concept of aporophobia (rejection of the poor), as introduced by Cortina's ground-breaking work. It can be considered a first step towards a fully-fledged theory of aporophobia. More specifically, i) it provides a conceptual analysis...
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Measurement and Evaluation of Equality of Opportunity: A Numerical Look at Education, Health, and Income Inequality
Haqiqi, Iman; Bahalou, Marziyeh; Hamidi, Razieh - 2014
Inequality in access to “opportunity” is one of the significant factors determining income inequality. The purpose of … opportunity in terms of access to education and health. In this research we use a Computable General Equilibrium model, focusing … reduction in income inequality is possible by small improvements in the equality of opportunity. …
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Are Africans happy? 'Return to laughter' in times of war, famine and misery
Kohnert, Dirk - 2022
shown increasing tendencies in recent decades. However, trends in inequality between indicators of income and happiness can … country in the world. The country registered growing equality of happiness despite rising income inequality. Obviously, the … absolute impact of income and happiness inequality at the country level is more important than the relative impact. Hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015267823
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Les Africains, sont-ils heureux ? « Retour au rire » en temps de guerre, de famine et de misère
Kohnert, Dirk - 2022
have shown increasing tendencies in recent decades. However, trends in inequality between indicators of income and … unequal country in the world. The country registered growing equality of happiness despite rising income inequality. Obviously …, the absolute impact of income and happiness inequality at the country level is more important than the relative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015267824
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A Persistente Desigualdade nas Grandes Cidades Brasileiras: o Caso de Brasília
Ferreira Lima, Luis Cristovao - 2013
differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the … biggest Brazilian cities did not show a trend of reduction, differently from the whole country. Also, the inequality in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015239413
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The Persistent Inequality in the Great Brazilian Cities: The Case of Brasília
Ferreira Lima, Luis Cristovao - 2013
differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the … biggest Brazilian cities did not show a trend of reduction, differently from the whole country. Also, the inequality in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015239414